Measurement of Information Technology Sophistication in Small Manufacturing Businesses

Authors:
Louis Raymond;Guy Paré
Affiliations:
Université du Québec í Trois-Rivières, Canada;Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Montréal
Venue:
Information Resources Management Journal
Year:
1992

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Abstract

If one wishes to identify the effects of information technology on organizational structure, strategy and performance, one must be able to characterize IT for operationalization purposes as a construct within a research framework. An initial requirement consists of developing and validating an instrument designed to measure an organization's level of sophistication in the use and management of IT. A preliminary version of such an instrument was built to be applied in small manufacturing enterprises and tested with a sample of 101 organizations. The results of this study constitute a first step toward developing an understanding of IT sophistication and provide initial evidence for the reliability and validity of the proposed instrument.